tSa TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINN^US. 



history at the university of Abo, in Finland, which charge LiNNiEus 

 had previously obtained for him, and where he terminated his hterary- 

 career in the year 1790. The mulberry-tree of Canada was by him in- 

 troduced into Sweden, and cultivated in several gardens ; the Swedish 

 government set a prize upon its cultivation in 1757, but the silk manu- 

 factures of that country never rose to a flourishing state. 



Some time after Kalm's return, Dr. Rolander, one of his col- 

 leagues, who had also been tutor to Linn jeus, junior, made a voyage 

 to Surinam and to the island of St. Eustatms in 1755; but his voyage 

 was of no great utility, and he was one of those pupils with whose con- 

 du8: LiNNiEus was most dissatisfied. 



The melancholy fateof Ternstroem, Hasselquist and Forskal> 

 who were cut off in the flower of youth in Asia, could by no means 

 deter their countrymen. In 1750 Olof Torek made a voyage to 

 the coast of Malabar and Surat, and some time after, Peter Osbeck, 

 as chaplain of a Swedish East-Indiaman, sailed to China. Both returned 

 safely with their treasures to Sweden, and published their observations*. 

 The captain of the ship himself became conspicuous for his love of 

 natural history and the zeal with which he served Linn.eus. His name 

 was EcKEBERct. In 1765 A. Sparrmann made likewise a voyage 

 with him to China ; he returned three years after, and from the year 

 1772 till 1776 made a voyage round the world with Capt. Cook and 

 FoRSTER — also 10 the Cape of (Jood Hope, and into the interior parts of 

 the South of Africa, by which his name became so celebrated +. Much 



* p. Osbeck's Journal of a voyage to the East-Indies, translated by Forster. 



f ECKEBERG's voyage to the East-Indies, and Token's tour to Surate, Stockholm, 1760. 



% Sjarrmann's voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Stockholm 1783, 8vo. S-wedish. 



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